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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / March 2008Unlocking a Blackberry 7130g
I recently was 'given' one of these by Orange as a 'free' upgrade. Seemed like a good idea at the time. However, GPRS always failed on the phone. Orange Customer Cervice told me that I in order to get GPRS on a Blackberry I needed to pay an additional £5 (I think) on my monthly contract, and that the shop should have told me this when giving me the phone. (They did not.) As I get GPRS on other phones (incl. a Nokia 9300i) purely on an as used basis, I was not interested in paying Orange an extra £5 on top of the £12 a month I pay them anyway. Does anyone have any experience of unlocking a Blackberry 7130g and / or getting GPRS and e-mail to work without paying the extra monthly charge, just paying for what I use as I go? Thanks for any advice.  SignatureRussell http://www.russell-hafter-holidays.co.uk Russell Hafter Holidays E-mail to enquiries at our domain Holiday specialists for Germany, Alsace, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic Russell Hafter News formulated the question : > I recently was 'given' one of these by Orange as a 'free' > upgrade. Seemed like a good idea at the time. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Thanks for any advice. You can't connect to BlackBerry's servers without a BlackBerry tariff. > Russell Hafter News formulated the question : [Snip] > > Does anyone have any experience of unlocking a > > Blackberry 7130g and / or getting GPRS and e-mail to > > work without paying the extra monthly charge, just > > paying for what I use as I go? > > Thanks for any advice. > You can't connect to BlackBerry's servers without a > BlackBerry tariff. OK. But I had no interest in connecting to BlackBerry's servers, just the ones I normally connect to. Or is the hardware designed only to work with BlackBerry's servers? Meaning that if I want to read e-mail on a Blackberry then that e-mail needs to be diverted from its usual POP3 server to a Balckberry server? I assumed that like on a Nokia 9300i I would be able to set up what ever servers I wanted. Seems to me that without that basic ability I could not get it to work the way I would want anyway. Which means that it is only any use to me as a phone anyway (sort of fancy Nokia 1100). SignatureRussell http://www.russell-hafter-holidays.co.uk Russell Hafter Holidays E-mail to enquiries at our domain Holiday specialists for Germany, Alsace, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic Russell Hafter News presented the following explanation : >> Russell Hafter News formulated the question : > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Or is the hardware designed only to work with BlackBerry's > servers? Sort of. There is no email "client" other than the BlackBerry system. You would configure their system to collect your pop email & send it to the phone. > Meaning that if I want to read e-mail on a Blackberry then > that e-mail needs to be diverted from its usual POP3 server > to a Balckberry server? Well, not diverted but collected by them & sent to the phone. > I assumed that like on a Nokia 9300i I would be able to set > up what ever servers I wanted. You can but not in the phone. > Seems to me that without that basic ability I could not get > it to work the way I would want anyway. Your only option would be to use webmail...unless there's a third-party mail client for the bb. > Which means that it is only any use to me as a phone anyway > (sort of fancy Nokia 1100). I can think of better phones than a blackberry. (I have the 8800) > Russell Hafter News presented the following explanation : > > In article > > <mn.1d307d83bff696a9.77298@blueyonder.invalid>, Jono > > <nothanks@blueyonder.invalid> wrote: > >> Russell Hafter News formulated the question : > > [Snip] > >>> Does anyone have any experience of unlocking a > >>> Blackberry 7130g and / or getting GPRS and e-mail to > >>> work without paying the extra monthly charge, just > >>> paying for what I use as I go? > >>> Thanks for any advice. > >> You can't connect to BlackBerry's servers without a > >> BlackBerry tariff. > > OK. But I had no interest in connecting to BlackBerry's > > servers, just the ones I normally connect to. > > Or is the hardware designed only to work with > > BlackBerry's servers? > Sort of. There is no email "client" other than the > BlackBerry system. You would configure their system to > collect your pop email & send it to the phone. > > Meaning that if I want to read e-mail on a Blackberry > > then that e-mail needs to be diverted from its usual > > POP3 server to a Balckberry server? > Well, not diverted but collected by them & sent to the > phone. > > I assumed that like on a Nokia 9300i I would be able to > > set up what ever servers I wanted. > You can but not in the phone. > > Seems to me that without that basic ability I could not > > get it to work the way I would want anyway. > Your only option would be to use webmail...unless there's > a third-party mail client for the bb. > > Which means that it is only any use to me as a phone > > anyway (sort of fancy Nokia 1100). > I can think of better phones than a blackberry. (I have > the 8800) OK. Thanks for the advice. Seems like it was not the cleverest choice, but it did not actually cost me anything! SignatureRussell http://www.russell-hafter-holidays.co.uk Russell Hafter Holidays E-mail to enquiries at our domain Holiday specialists for Germany, Alsace, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic > Seems like it was not the cleverest choice, but it did not > actually cost me anything! Apart from a contract extension. SignatureRegards Jon > > Seems like it was not the cleverest choice, but it did > > not actually cost me anything! > Apart from a contract extension. True, but of no significance, since I have no intention of ending the service anyway. SignatureRussell http://www.russell-hafter-holidays.co.uk Russell Hafter Holidays E-mail to enquiries at our domain Holiday specialists for Germany, Alsace, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic > > > Seems like it was not the cleverest choice, but it did > > > not actually cost me anything! [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > True, but of no significance, since I have no intention of > ending the service anyway. Can you come to my shop for your next upgrade? I'll see what I've got in the stockroom that I need to get rid of! SignatureRegards Jon > Can you come to my shop for your next upgrade? I'll see > what I've got in the stockroom that I need to get rid of! As long as you are somewhere convenient, and you have something that does GPRS e-mail with at least a half-decent QWERTY keyboard as well as voice lying around in your stockroom I would be happy to. Fax would be useful too. I know that Orange will not be offering anything like that on a contract that pays them £11 a month. Otherwise I shall stick to seeing what I can screw out of a local Orange shop, who at least always seem to have much better stuff at their disposal than the Orange website. Thanks for the info about Blackberries. I shall not be bothering with another, even if it, too, is 'free'. SignatureRussell http://www.russell-hafter-holidays.co.uk Russell Hafter Holidays E-mail to enquiries at our domain Holiday specialists for Germany, Alsace, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic |
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